A Bear Called Bruno

About the Book

Bruno is a kind, handsome big old bear who has six children and two grandchildren! They live in the wilderness among hundreds of trees and bushes, alongside a fast-flowing river. Life is good, until one day when Bruno sees his granddaughter Coco looking sad, standing alone on the riverbank. When she says everything is OK, Bruno goes about his day as usual. But later that afternoon when he passes by the river again, he notices Coco is still there and has salt marks coming down from her eyes. He knows something is wrong. Over the next few days, he keeps an eye on her, but it is not until he visits her school and talks with her friends that he realises what is wrong—Coco is being bullied. After Bruno speaks with her teachers and with the parents of the bears who are bullying Coco, school life returns to normal for Coco and for the bullying bears.

About the Author

With four children under five, living on a small farm out of Melbourne, Australia he respected the need for careful education and sensible discipline and decided rather than remember the stories he’d told them the night before, he would put his stories down in writing so they could be read whenever they were wanted, or needed, to be read. Twenty years on his stories have been incorporated into two series of Life Lessons for Kids, one based on farm animals, another set based on wild animals and are still sought by parents and families around the nearby farming community, local schools and beyond.